Martin Potgeter, Qiagen's senior director of corporate development, says portable diagnostic machines are particularly helpful for international businesses whose mobile workforces are vulnerable to picking up infections and diseases as they travel between countries.
Those with a highly mobile workforce are already seeing swift changes.
And today's mobile workforce is relying on mobile applications more than road warriors of just a few years ago.
Mobile phone solutions for increacing the productivity of a mobile workforce is sure to continue to be an important aspect of a more mobile world.
Teleport, a startup founded by early Skype employees around the idea of supporting an increasingly global mobile workforce, is taking another step toward that reality today.
Businesses across the board are finally acknowledging that, like it or not, today's mobile workforce is increasingly gravitating toward cloud apps for the added productivity they afford.
A company tapping into the power of a distributed mobile workforce is Quri, a retailer analytics and intelligence company whose software has been adopted by half of the top twenty-five consumersumer packaged goods) brands around the world, including Tyson, Nestle, Dannon, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and others.
Market Opportunity A flexible work environment and an increasingly mobile workforce are driving the demand for remote access to critical business information.
Now, Google is trying to enter this market with Google Maps Coordinate, a service that mashes up Google's mapping and geolocation services and APIs with a dispatch system for mobile workforces that's available both on the Web and on Android phones and tablets.
That mobile-first and mobile-only workforce is even more prevalent in Asia, which is why the company took funding from investors in that area.
